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Batman Goes Metal In New Comic

Acclaimed Batman creative team reunites for Dark Nights: Metal.

In 2011, DC Comics relaunched its line of comics with the New 52. The creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's run resulted in an acclaimed 50-issue series on Batman, which ended in April 2016. DC Comics announced Snyder and Capullo are reuniting with the rest of the creative team--Jonathan Glapion on inks and FCO Plascencia on colors--this summer with Dark Nights: Metal.

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The specifics of the story are being kept vague. Writer Snyder dropped some hints about the upcoming series: "I've been planning Metal for as long as I've been writing Batman," says Snyder. "But this is bigger than Batman. Greg and I started dropping clues during Court of Owls, we continued through our Joker stories and we placed our biggest hints in the run that culminated with Batman #50. And now we're back to tell a story that breaks everything apart. This will be the definitive project of our careers. Metal takes us in an entirely new direction. Greg and I will dig beneath the surface of all the stories we've told to find a place of terror and twisted nightmares."

Snyder also stated the story won't be entirely grim despite the terror and nightmares rooted in it. "Dark Nights: Metal will be celebratory, huge and crazy. I've said it before: I am going for out-of-control dinosaurs and lasers."

The first issue of Dark Nights: Metal will be on sale August 2017.

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I think this song is more appropriate.

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Also, it embodies the whole 'I'm Batman' meme.

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Odd, what with Snyder being such a huge Elvis fan.

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Great for Batman, it's everyone else I am worried about.

Incoming story derailment for:

  • 'Tec
  • Titans
  • Batgirl
  • Birds of Prey
  • Teen Titans
  • Nightwing
  • Red Hood & the Outlaws

Plus whoever else editors thing would be really good idea to get their books involved, regardless whenever the writer thinks so or not.

Basically.

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Too many Snyders

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Dinosaurs and lasers. I don't like the sound of this, but I won't be picking it up anyway, so it doesn't really matter what I think.

Probably the thing that puts me off Snyder's work is the horror element that he constantly injects in his books - at least his work in the New 52. For me personally they're just pushing the extremes of violence and gore that I find really ineffective and gratuitous. I want cool mysteries and intrigue, not the Joker having his face cut off. Ridiculous.

The recent King arc 'I am Suicide' and 'Rooftops' were fantastic. Violence and darkness are fine, it's Batman after all, but Snyder just takes it into a place I don't think it needs to go.

Such as dinosaurs, lasers and nightmares or whatever the unfortunate quote was.

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@lvenger said:

I always thought Batman preferred the blues.

This tickled me a lot more than it should have XD

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@rurgandy: Have you been reading the newest series of it?

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@rob collier: I am totally having this song playing on a loop when reading the new series. Thank you for this.

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@thegamemanuel: Yes, and it's the same incoherent "2 edgy 4 u" schlock that the New 52 series was. Just because Red Hood fans circlejerk over it, it doesn't mean it's improved.

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@outside_85 said:

Great for Batman, it's everyone else I am worried about.

Incoming story derailment for:

  • 'Tec
  • Titans
  • Batgirl
  • Birds of Prey
  • Teen Titans
  • Nightwing
  • Red Hood & the Outlaws

Plus whoever else editors thing would be really good idea to get their books involved, regardless whenever the writer thinks so or not.

Basically.

QFT.

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@shawnbaby: Lol that clip is so....outta nowhere random cringe bullsht.

Funny nonetheless

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I like the cover art. The 50 series run was pretty well done I thought. Hopefully this is well written. With that art I wonder if Batman will be a killer or more brutal.

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Greg and I started dropping clues during Court of Owls, we continued through our Joker stories and we placed our biggest hints in the run that culminated with Batman #50

With reboots & retcons, crap like Flashpoint, new fifty-stupid, rebirth, etc, why would anybody reading anything ever think clues were being dropped, existed, or even mattered?

& if they did, the next movie/show/ season of Gotham would mandate characters being brought back, & the next writing team will have their own groundbreaking game changing to the extreme moments.

Just admit that you arc is its own self-contained universal continuity, & the next writers start fresh with Bruce dressing in bat-jamies because criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot.

This'll do nothing, this'll change nothing. Grow a pair & in the next multiversal reset, replace Batman & Superman with Apollo & Midnighter. & have a threeway with Zealot.

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Greg and I started dropping clues during Court of Owls, we continued through our Joker stories and we placed our biggest hints in the run that culminated with Batman #50

With reboots & retcons, crap like Flashpoint, new fifty-stupid, rebirth, etc, why would anybody reading anything ever think clues were being dropped, existed, or even mattered?

& if they did, the next movie/show/ season of Gotham would mandate characters being brought back, & the next writing team will have their own groundbreaking game changing to the extreme moments.

Just admit that you arc is its own self-contained universal continuity, & the next writers start fresh with Bruce dressing in bat-jamies because criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot.

This'll do nothing, this'll change nothing. Grow a pair & in the next multiversal reset, replace Batman & Superman with Apollo & Midnighter. & have a threeway with Zealot.

Bingo and he has a tendency to quickly shelve/ignore his own "earth shattering" changes. Why should anyone really care about any clues.

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@entropy_aegis: Yes. You must be talking about Grant Moronison's Batman run. That was a horrible six years of lackluster storylines that went nowhere. What a hack.

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Scott Snyder on a Monday: "This is the definitive day of all days. This is the best day you will ever live."

SS on a Tues: "Monday was big, but its rly just laid the groundwork for Tuesday. It's all been building to this."

SS on Wed: "Forget everything you thought you knew. Wednesday is everything. E V E R Y T H I N G!"

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@jsphsmth said:

@entropy_aegis: Yes. You must be talking about Grant Moronison's Batman run. That was a horrible six years of lackluster storylines that went nowhere. What a hack.

Why do you always respond to me and bring Morrison in to the conversation to boot? what does Morrison have anything to do with this? did he molest you? and was I an unwitting accomplice to it? you're more than free to contest what I say with a proper argument but stop trolling me with your butt hurt.

Seriously your posts are directed towards either me or Morrison. Seriously who cares about Morrison in this thread?

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Awesome

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@rurgandy: I dunno, I actually enjoy Red Hood's story. The last issue was pretty cool with him being back and having flashbacks about The Joker.

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why not emo?

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wow axes that Batman won't use cuz he doesn't kill

this is awesome guys!

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@bloodstorm67: why bump this lol.

And Metal has to do with Nth Metal apparently. That's why it's called Metal.

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@eto said:

@bloodstorm67: why bump this lol.

And Metal has to do with Nth Metal apparently. That's why it's called Metal.

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@rubear: Are you looking forward to the main event?

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@the_stegman: There is nothing more metal then then Batman , also there is nothing more then N-th metal , so show some love for Batman's Dark metal

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I think Barbatos is the Dark Multiverse almagam of Batman merged with The Spectre/Aztar. Look at the huge powerset, the way he talks, connection to the Multiverse, that cloak.. I wouldn't be surprised if the spear of destiny (FC: Revalations #3) was made from Nth metal, which can hurt Barbatos as we saw with Hawkman's mace.

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The new team sucks at batman, they took the whole story into yet another JL/JLA. Batman was cool for his lone wolf or Robin stories, now it is a huge team.... I am so glad we are getting the Metal with the original new52 team back, maybe some stuff will be cooler and more fun to read.

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